The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-11-11
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curse her when she shall be born ugainI
Let her be born accursedi
Let her be utterly accursed from the
hour OF her birth until sleep finds heri
yes, then let her be accursed, for then
shall I overtake her with my vengeance.
n utterly destroy her!"
And so on. The flame rose and fell, re.
fecting itself in her agonizcd eyes; the
Kissing sound Of her terrible malediction-
and no words Of mine, especially on paper.
can convey how terrible they were-ran
round the walls, and died away in little
echoes, and the fierce light and deep gloom
alternated themselves on the white and
dreadful form stretched upon that bier Of
stone.
But at length she seemed to wearhersclf
u and ceased. She sat herself down upon
the rocky floor, and shook the dense cloud
of her beautiful hair over her face and
breast. and commenced to sob terribly in
the torture Of a heart-rending despair.
MY love! my love! my Lowell Why did
that stranger bring thee back to me after
this sort? For five hundred years 1 have
not suffered thus. Oh, If I sinned against
thee, have I not wiped away the SIM
When wilt thou come back to me, who
have all, and yet without thee have naught?
What is there that I can do, WHAT
WHAT WHAT And %perchance she-pSk
chance that Egyptian doth abide with thss
where thou art, and mock my memory
oh, why could I not die with thee, I who
slew thees Alas that I can not diel Alas!
Alasl' And she flung herself prone upon
the ground, and sobbed and wept till l
thought her heart must burst.
Suddenly she ceased, raised herself to
her feet, and tossing back her long locks
impatiently, swept across to where the fig
ure lay upon the stone.
"Oh, Kallikrates," she cried, and I trem-
bled at the name, ~ must look upon thy
face. again, though it be agony. 1t is q
generation since l looked upon thee whom
l sicw-slew with mine own hand" and
with trembling fingers she seized the cor
ncr of the wrapping that lay over the form
upon the stone bier. and she paused. When
she spoke again. it WA in a kind of awedI
whisper, as though her idea were terrible
even to herself.
"Shall l raise thee" she said, apparently
addressing the corpse, $50 that thou stand
est there before me as of old? lean do it,"
and she held out her hands over the sheeted
dead, While her whole frame became rigid
and terrible to see, and her eyes grew fixed
and dull. Ishrunk in horror behind the
curtain, my HAIR stood up upon my head,
and whether it was my Imagination or q
fact, l nm unable to say, but l thought
that the quiet form beneath the covering
began to CULVER, and the winding-sheet to
lift as though it lay on the breast of one
who slept. Suddenly she withdrew her
hands.
"What is the use!" she said, gloomily.
"Of.what use is it to recall the semblance
of life when l can not recall the spirita
Even il thou stoodest before me thou
wouldst not know me, and couldst but do
what l bid thee. The life in thee would
be my life, and not thy life, Kallikrates."
Fnr n m,r,ent she stood there. and
cast herself down on her knees beside the
form, and began to press her lips against
the sheet, and weep. ~ghere@Yas something
so horrible about the sight Of this fGarsome
woman letting loose her passion on the
dead-so much more horrible even than
anything that had gone before-that I
could no longer bear to look at 1t, and
turning, commenced to creep, shaking rs ]
was IN every llmD, Slowly along Une pltcn:
dark passage, feeling in my heart that ]
had had a vision Of q S1nl in Hell.
On I stumbled, I scarcely know how.
Twice I fell, once I turned Qpthe bisecting
passage. but fortunately found out my
mistake in time. Twenty putes or more
I crept along. till at last arred to me
That I must have passed tle stair by
which l descended. exhausted
and nearly frightened 9e.I nix
down at length there me flooring,
and into oblivion.
When i came to Knott IN. ray Of
light in the
crept to it. and iodhd
down which the weak Nln was eeeet1ls.
Passing up 1t. 1 gained my chamber in
safety, and 1inging myself on the couch,
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